I shall now only observe further upon this subject, that as a society,
consisting of an union of the Quakers, with others of other religious
denominations, was established for Pennsylvania in behalf of the
oppressed Africans; so different societies, consisting each of a similar
union of persons, were established in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, and other states for the same object, and that these
afterwards held a correspondence and personal communion with each other
for the promotion of it.
CHAPTER VI.
[Sidenote: Observations on the three classes already
introduced.--Coincidence of extraordinary circumstances.--Individuals in
each of these classes, who seem to have had an education as it were to
qualify them for promoting the cause of the abolition; Sharp and Ramsay
in the first; Dillwyn in the second; Pemberton and Rush in the
third.--These, with their respective classes, acted on motives of their
own, and independently of each other; and yet, from circumstances
neither foreseen nor known by them, they were in the way of being easily
united in 1787.--William Dillwyn, the great medium of connexion between
them all.]
If the reader will refer to his recollection, he will find that I have
given the history of three of the classes of the forerunners and
coadjutors in the great cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade up to
the time proposed.
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